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Title: Ake no Angel
Post by: The Answer on July 13, 2025, 01:43:38 AM
Word around Ake using Swedish blood builder and Gural turns blind eye to it. Out of competition testing done this week on many barns. Guess who didn’t get tested? Yes Ake! His horses turn from out of trot to monsters. Other trainers are pissed!!!
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Trigger on July 13, 2025, 01:55:26 AM
Word around Ake using Swedish blood builder and Gural turns blind eye to it. Out of competition testing done this week on many barns. Guess who didn’t get tested? Yes Ake! His horses turn from out of trot to monsters. Other trainers are pissed!!!

 tmbz1

The winners he's had the last 2 days have been very heavily bet too.  Below even money. 

Fucking greedy mother fuckers, they want it all!
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Harness Racing Revolution on July 13, 2025, 06:27:47 AM
Word around Ake using Swedish blood builder and Gural turns blind eye to it. Out of competition testing done this week on many barns. Guess who didn’t get tested? Yes Ake! His horses turn from out of trot to monsters. Other trainers are pissed!!!

Whether true or not. Who does he train for and who is he partners with in horses? IMO, a bit of a conflict of interest.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Harness racer on July 13, 2025, 06:35:52 AM
Gural owning horses at his own track has always been a huge conflict of interest.  No one has ever seemed to mind and I’m not really sure why.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: CMJAnew on July 13, 2025, 07:02:19 AM
He CANNOT Run Overnights At Tioga n Vernon. Tioga horsemen said OK, but Vernon’s said NO WAY.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: seen2much on July 13, 2025, 07:49:38 AM
I don't know if there was OTC testing. If there was two top stables were missing their Wheaties. Burke & Takter are big stakes players & both were not heard from. The telling sign is when some top ones rode rail & lost ground in the stretch.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Parked on July 13, 2025, 08:20:49 AM
I don't know if there was OTC testing. If there was two top stables were missing their Wheaties. Burke & Takter are big stakes players & both were not heard from. The telling sign is when some top ones rode rail & lost ground in the stretch.

You are right. Horrible nights for those 2. Some of the Takter horses were beat by 9, 10, 12 15 and 17 lengths.  None hit the board !! Burke win the open  but had 3 horses in it.   Crazy stuff.   Mike will find out what is going on.   
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kenny on July 13, 2025, 09:36:55 AM
(https://static.bonniernews.se/images/66/65/6665661fe02c866a641d8d34999f6002/420@60.jpg)

https://www.expressen.se/sport/kronikorer/mats-olsson/mats-olsson-darfor-ar-folk-elaka-mot-hastar/ (https://www.expressen.se/sport/kronikorer/mats-olsson/mats-olsson-darfor-ar-folk-elaka-mot-hastar/)
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Superfecta on July 13, 2025, 10:39:06 AM
(https://static.bonniernews.se/images/66/65/6665661fe02c866a641d8d34999f6002/420@60.jpg)

https://www.expressen.se/sport/kronikorer/mats-olsson/mats-olsson-darfor-ar-folk-elaka-mot-hastar/ (https://www.expressen.se/sport/kronikorer/mats-olsson/mats-olsson-darfor-ar-folk-elaka-mot-hastar/)

English version please.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kenny on July 13, 2025, 10:41:58 AM
English version please.

Use Google Translate.  It is a Swedish article.  Ake was accused of using an electric pig prod to train horses. He was not convicted due to a technicality. I saw one article where it was reported he even admitted it.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: pocketrocketwinner on July 13, 2025, 11:28:42 AM
No individual can be, or try to be, bigger than an industry. Else that industry fails.

Seeing track owners in their own winners circle sickens me. Looks like something that woukd expect to see happen in Russia, not the US
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Superfecta on July 13, 2025, 11:31:47 AM
No individual can be, or try to be, bigger than an industry. Else that industry fails.

Seeing track owners in their own winners circle sickens me. Looks like something that woukd expect to see happen in Russia, not the US

It’s disgusting and he bans the trainers that cheat as good or better than his guys.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: The Answer on July 13, 2025, 11:46:27 AM
No individual can be, or try to be, bigger than an industry. Else that industry fails.

Seeing track owners in their own winners circle sickens me. Looks like something that woukd expect to see happen in Russia, not the US

Don’t have a problem with Gural owning and racing horses at his own tracks. Track owners have been doing it forever. He just has a love affair with Ake and lets him get away with anything he wants. There’s no way Ake can just be that much better than everyone else and yes the NJRC did out of competition testing this week. He plugs them when he wants. If Gap Kronos has any trot in the Hambo eliminations there needs to be a full investigation. He had none last night.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: pocketrocketwinner on July 13, 2025, 12:08:08 PM
Don’t have a problem with Gural owning and racing horses at his own tracks. Track owners have been doing it forever. He just has a love affair with Ake and lets him get away with anything he wants. There’s no way Ake can just be that much better than everyone else and yes the NJRC did out of competition testing this week. He plugs them when he wants. If Gap Kronos has any trot in the Hambo eliminations there needs to be a full investigation. He had none last night.

It's wrong now and it's been wrong forever. It's not appealing to buy babies that have to race against ownership. And how often do gural horses get roughed up on the track by other drivers? I say very very rarely. That's not fair to the betting public.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kirbys Ace on July 13, 2025, 12:12:01 PM
Gural owning horses at his own track has always been a huge conflict of interest.  No one has ever seemed to mind and I’m not really sure why.

I think it's because his track his rule.

I guess if you don't like it then race somewhere else.

Sort of like it's my house and I can do whatever I like!
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Birdfantammy on July 13, 2025, 12:41:16 PM
It's wrong now and it's been wrong forever. It's not appealing to buy babies that have to race against ownership. And how often do gural horses get roughed up on the track by other drivers? I say very very rarely. That's not fair to the betting public.

I agree 100% with this!
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Parked on July 13, 2025, 01:24:35 PM
Do the owners of the Red Mile race their horses there ?.?  Answer is YES !!!
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: pocketrocketwinner on July 13, 2025, 02:08:19 PM
Do the owners of the Red Mile race their horses there ?.?  Answer is YES !!!

Red mile is the worst track a gambler can find. I love the breakage in KY but it is seriously outweighed by all the nonsense at that track. Makes perfect sense to me that the owners race there.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Pacer 2 on July 13, 2025, 02:27:41 PM
Word around Ake using Swedish blood builder and Gural turns blind eye to it. Out of competition testing done this week on many barns. Guess who didn’t get tested? Yes Ake! His horses turn from out of trot to monsters. Other trainers are pissed!!!

  What trainer is pissed?
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Stan durbread on July 13, 2025, 04:59:33 PM
  What trainer is pissed?
Not any professional ones. And how exactly do they know that the commission didn’t test Ake horses?  Were they hiding in the bushes on private property instead of taking care of their barn?
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: brown eyes on July 13, 2025, 05:08:24 PM
Ake is a criminal and he should be deported along with his cattle prod!
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Stan durbread on July 13, 2025, 05:10:14 PM
Ake is a criminal and he should be deported along with his cattle prod!
You got any proof?
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kenny on July 13, 2025, 05:41:12 PM
You got any proof?

Ake might be as "clean" in the US as any other top trainer. It has been so long that I have not found all the Swedish articles published at the time.  I did read one where the allegedly quoted Ake as saying he did use an electric prod at one time but stopped using it because it was ineffective. I also remember seeing an article indicating he was not convicted based on technical issues not innocence. Again those articles were in Swedish and I have not been able to find them again.

Use Google Translate:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/trav365/a/VRxj8r/atal-vackt-mot-ake-svanstedt

https://www.resume.se/kommunikation/pr/sponsorn-hotar-hoppa-av/

https://www.expressen.se/sport/trav/darfor-bryter-elon-med-svanstedt/


Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Stan durbread on July 13, 2025, 08:04:38 PM
Ake might be as "clean" in the US as any other top trainer. It has been so long that I have not found all the Swedish articles published at the time.  I did read one where the allegedly quoted Ake as saying he did use an electric prod at one time but stopped using it because it was ineffective. I also remember seeing an article indicating he was not convicted based on technical issues not innocence. Again those articles were in Swedish and I have not been able to find them again.

Use Google Translate:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/trav365/a/VRxj8r/atal-vackt-mot-ake-svanstedt

https://www.resume.se/kommunikation/pr/sponsorn-hotar-hoppa-av/

https://www.expressen.se/sport/trav/darfor-bryter-elon-med-svanstedt/
I’m not going to debate if you uses a cattle prod in Sweden or not 30 years ago. My family been in the livestock industry since 1900’s. What is the difference if we use a prod to move cattle,pigs, or horses??
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: pocketrocketwinner on July 13, 2025, 08:11:58 PM
I’m not going to debate if you uses a cattle prod in Sweden or not 30 years ago. My family been in the livestock industry since 1900’s. What is the difference if we use a prod to move cattle,pigs, or horses??

Any device that delivers an electric current is illegal to administer to racehorses
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Pacer 2 on July 13, 2025, 08:39:34 PM
Not any professional ones. And how exactly do they know that the commission didn’t test Ake horses?  Were they hiding in the bushes on private property instead of taking care of their barn?
tmbz1 tmbz1
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kenny on July 14, 2025, 06:35:44 AM
I’m not going to debate if you uses a cattle prod in Sweden or not 30 years ago. My family been in the livestock industry since 1900’s. What is the difference if we use a prod to move cattle,pigs, or horses??

He used it to TRAIN his horses.  It is attitudes like yours which helps PETA to get the industry shut down.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kole Hanover on July 14, 2025, 09:29:16 AM
Not any professional ones. And how exactly do they know that the commission didn’t test Ake horses?  Were they hiding in the bushes on private property instead of taking care of their barn?

 
 Lol @ the reference there, A-1
 
 peekin' out dem bushes like a crack fiend peekin' out da blinds
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 14, 2025, 09:41:51 AM
Any device that delivers an electric current is illegal to administer to racehorses

Better tell the boys in Delaware and Maryland.....ever ybody uses it....why do you think everyone wears hoods/blinkers.....
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Pacer 2 on July 14, 2025, 10:00:05 AM
Better tell the boys in Delaware and Maryland.....ever ybody uses it....why do you think everyone wears hoods/blinkers.....
 
       You have quite an imagination...... . ngc3 ngc3
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: seen2much on July 14, 2025, 10:25:38 AM
You are right. Horrible nights for those 2. Some of the Takter horses were beat by 9, 10, 12 15 and 17 lengths.  None hit the board !! Burke win the open  but had 3 horses in it.   Crazy stuff.   Mike will find out what is going on.
Open trot didn't have a D barn. Were those horses tested too?
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 14, 2025, 11:11:48 AM
 
       You have quite an imagination...... . ngc3 ngc3

Boots on the ground tells the truth
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 14, 2025, 12:11:31 PM
Don't make statements unless you  know the truth in the real world.....back to AKE.....in 2019 I brought this trial of animal cruelty on AKE up to GURAL,SETTLEMOIR AND COTE.......they ignored the truth and publications about the issue .......6 years later....same
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Pacer 2 on July 14, 2025, 12:20:18 PM
Don't make statements unless you  know the truth in the real world.....back to AKE.....in 2019 I brought this trial of animal cruelty on AKE up to GURAL,SETTLEMOIR AND COTE.......they ignored the truth and publications about the issue .......6 years later....same
     You have quite an imagination...... .  ngc3 ngc3 ngc3
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 14, 2025, 01:10:35 PM
Clueless
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: clearmind on July 14, 2025, 01:36:40 PM
    No one spends more money then Ake in this business and no one has more trotters then him. And all have royal breeding.

    However I hear that his staff think they are special and have attitude.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: rainman2 on July 14, 2025, 02:36:36 PM
No individual can be, or try to be, bigger than an industry. Else that industry fails.

Seeing track owners in their own winners circle sickens me. Looks like something that woukd expect to see happen in Russia, not the US

Other than Gural, which track owners raced horses at their own track?

From the old days—Jurvsnski at flamboro. Delvin Miller @ the meadows?

Please list any others.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: gh2009 on July 14, 2025, 02:38:51 PM
On the T-Bred side, William Rickman who owned Delaware Park for 38 years before selling it a few years ago used to race his horses there all the time.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Trigger on July 14, 2025, 02:39:21 PM
Other than Gural, which track owners raced horses at their own track?

From the old days—Jurvsnski at flamboro. Delvin Miller @ the meadows?

Please list any others.

Stronach
Didn't Art Rooney Sr. - Yonkers?
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Trigger on July 14, 2025, 02:43:48 PM
Timothy Rooney then for sure.

"He was the breeder and owner of Immortal Lismore p,3,T1:57.2 ($150,309), sired by Immortal Albatross p,4,1:54.3f ($1.201 million). She is the dam of millionaire Albert Albert p,3,1:52.1 ($1.237 million) and 2007 Broodmare of the Year Lisheen p,3,1:52.3 ($518,405), dam of Lis Mara p,4,1:47.3 ($2.141 million) and Lislea p,3, Q1:52.3 ($28,849) a stallion who, with only nine lifetime starts, has shown talent as the sire of stakes winners, including Rooney-owned-and-bred Lislea Phia p,4,1:50.2f ($532,450). Lismore produced nineteen registered foals and seventeen starters whose earnings to date have totaled $4.1 million. Rooney is also the breeder of BG’s Bunny p,3,1:54 ($215,192), whose career at stud from 1978 to 1992 boasts 1,681 registered foals and 1,406 starters with combined earnings of $51.5 million."

https://harnessmuseum.com/content/timothy-j-rooney (source)
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Laag on July 14, 2025, 04:22:19 PM
wtf has happened to Burke, Takter, Alegna that the Capones of the world are outdoing them. Seems like Ake is the only trainer with go now...and wtf also happened to Julie Miller..do they even have any horses anymore
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: gh2009 on July 14, 2025, 04:26:53 PM
Julie Miller has plenty of horses, but none are top horses, plus she still uses Andy who's a dead driver.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: rainman2 on July 14, 2025, 04:29:34 PM
Julie Miller has plenty of horses, but none are top horses, plus she still uses Andy who's a dead driver.

Is Tyler driving a few of them??
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: gh2009 on July 14, 2025, 04:31:51 PM
Tyler drives some and she's been sending a few up to Tioga where Tyler drives. In interviews with Julie, she talks like Andy is a good driver which he isn't especially when it comes to keeping a horse alive in the stretch.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 14, 2025, 04:32:17 PM
Medication supply dried up
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: rainman2 on July 14, 2025, 04:37:43 PM
Medication supply dried up

tariffs???? 73cv.2 ngc3
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Calhoun on July 14, 2025, 05:09:59 PM
Stronach
Didn't Art Rooney Sr. - Yonkers?
Ducchichois at Arlington.

Van Lennep/Castleton Farm ... Wolverine // Red Mile // Built Pompano... He dumped his wife and married a daughter of Dodge (Motors). Big breeder.

Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Ramnap on July 14, 2025, 07:13:52 PM
Any device that delivers an electric current is illegal to administer to racehorses

Cattle prods work on them lazy bastards anybody saying they dont shouldnt be racing horses cause ur stupid. Bear scent on ur whip n colors works just as good especially on the front end.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Pacer 2 on July 14, 2025, 07:19:42 PM
Medication supply dried up

   Which medications??  Enlighten us!  ngc3 ngc3
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 14, 2025, 07:22:11 PM
All
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Brown jug on July 14, 2025, 07:25:16 PM
i would not worry about burke or takter for that matter, they are and will be fine
some of the others though?? horses are not winning any races
chris ryder seems fine though
melander seems fine
ake seems fine

today in kentucky other than melander most of the big names were quiet
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Pacer 2 on July 14, 2025, 07:29:20 PM
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Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: gh2009 on July 14, 2025, 07:37:36 PM
i would not worry about burke or takter for that matter, they are and will be fine
some of the others though?? horses are not winning any races
chris ryder seems fine though
melander seems fine
ake seems fine

today in kentucky other than melander most of the big names were quiet
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Tony Alagna's stable has been quiet for years and he has alot of expensive horses not earning their keep, and several of his owners have been bailing. Might be the reason he's selling his farm in NJ
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Laag on July 14, 2025, 08:45:42 PM
hopefully a passing of the torch to a new generation....Sto ebe taking Elista to new heights and she has some good looking 2year olds. Capone and Boyd winning the Meadowlands Pace. Maybe the new blood and energy can save the sport. Alot of the old tired owners arent winning as much anymore
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: DEBBIE DOES on July 14, 2025, 10:46:04 PM
Cattle prods work on them lazy bastards anybody saying they dont shouldnt be racing horses cause ur stupid. Bear scent on ur whip n colors works just as good especially on the front end.

ask randy tharps how that went for him.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kole Hanover on July 15, 2025, 01:35:41 PM
Other than Gural, which track owners raced horses at their own track?

From the old days—Jurvsnski at flamboro. Delvin Miller @ the meadows?

Please list any others.

 Do you know who currently owns the Red Mile?

 Hence, the reason the Red Mile was built..
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Checked Up on July 15, 2025, 02:36:11 PM
ask randy tharps how that went for him.
Since you opened up about R.T. and his experience with it, how bout you add details for those of us haven't heard the story!
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 15, 2025, 02:47:43 PM
Do you know who currently owns the Red Mile?

 Hence, the reason the Red Mile was built..



Last I knew Joe Thomps on(WINBAK),ANTONCCI FAMILY (LINDY FARMSand George Segal
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Way to go on July 15, 2025, 02:48:41 PM
Antonacci Family
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: seen2much on July 17, 2025, 02:16:22 PM
Julie Miller has plenty of horses, but none are top horses, plus she still uses Andy who's a dead driver.
The Miller team use to have many top trotters. They have taken a big step backwards.
Title: Re: Ake no Angel
Post by: Kole Hanover on July 17, 2025, 02:20:52 PM


Last I knew Joe Thomps on(WINBAK),ANTONCCI FAMILY (LINDY FARMSand George Segal


 They are owners who's horses race there.
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